Le Saint Philippe 1693 after Jean-Claude Lemineur (Ancre) in scale 1:48

[dockattner]

What did you do to fair the extra wood of the gunports?

The inner and outer faces were faired with a sanding block.

 

[RichardG]

What wood is it? I know it is hardwood, but it looks almost like Japanese Hinoki.

 

[dockattner]

What wood is it? I know it is hardwood, but it looks almost like Japanese Hinoki.

Hi Richard. The structural components of this model are all in European Pearwood.

 

[Steef66]

You hand sanding is perfect.

 

[CLB]

The rough-in of the gunports (and lights) is now complete:

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Inexplicably I made all six of the first deck gunports too wide. In trying to reconstruct how that happened it seems that the initial measurement was wrong as every port is too wide by an identical amount. It is also true that the monograph specifies one width, and the drawings show a different width. Unfortunately, I must not have caught that difference during the research stage.

In any case my solution was to insert a thin fillet - the planking will make this repair largely disappear.

A first deck gun port:

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A second deck gun port:

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Next up are the upper and lower sills.

Thanks for stopping by!

Looks really good Paul - perfect alignment. Have you decided how much you're going to plank yet ?

 

[NMBROOK]

Great work Paul,really coming along

Million dollar question, would you buy another Lemineur Monograph?

 

[oldflyer]

Paul,
I was looking through you log and got curious about the ship - Found this - You've probably already
gone through this but in case not....

OKRĘTY KRÓLA SŁOŃCE / The Saint-Philippe 1693 - 1715; monografia Ancre

Le Saint-Philippe 1693 - 1715 Święty Filip był okrętem liniowym pierwszej rangi francuskiej marynarki królewskiej Ludwika XIV, drugim okrętem w dwuokrętowej klasie Tonnant (siostrzana jednostka Tonnant). Okręt został zamówiony pod koniec 1692 roku w stoczni w Tulonie, a 20 stycznia 1693...

koga.net.pl

 

[dockattner]

You hand sanding is perfect.

Thanks, Stephan.

 

[dockattner]

Looks really good Paul - perfect alignment. Have you decided how much you're going to plank yet ?

Hello Chris,

The current plan is to fully plank the exterior (I sort of feel like that decision was made when I omitted the frame mortices). No planking on the interior.

 

[dockattner]

Paul,
I was looking through you log and got curious about the ship - Found this - You've probably already
gone through this but in case not....

OKRĘTY KRÓLA SŁOŃCE / The Saint-Philippe 1693 - 1715; monografia Ancre

Le Saint-Philippe 1693 - 1715 Święty Filip był okrętem liniowym pierwszej rangi francuskiej marynarki królewskiej Ludwika XIV, drugim okrętem w dwuokrętowej klasie Tonnant (siostrzana jednostka Tonnant). Okręt został zamówiony pod koniec 1692 roku w stoczni w Tulonie, a 20 stycznia 1693...

koga.net.pl

Thanks, John. Much appreciated.

 

[dockattner]

Great work Paul,really coming along

Million dollar question, would you buy another Lemineur Monograph?

Probably not the best time to answer that question .

 

[Jack Sparrow]

Well, that was a lot more work than I anticipated...

The rough-in of the gunports (and lights) is now complete:

View attachment 548353

View attachment 548356

View attachment 548355

Inexplicably I made all six of the first deck gunports too wide. In trying to reconstruct how that happened it seems that the initial measurement was wrong as every port is too wide by an identical amount. It is also true that the monograph specifies one width, and the drawings show a different width. Unfortunately, I must not have caught that difference during the research stage.

In any case my solution was to insert a thin fillet - the planking will make this repair largely disappear.

A first deck gun port:

View attachment 548354

A second deck gun port:

View attachment 548357

Next up are the upper and lower sills.

Thanks for stopping by!

Looking good. Can't wait to see the sills.

 

[dockattner]

BTW if you get serious with this type of construction you may want to upgrade your mill to make your life easier than with the Proxxon. I picked up my TAIG for under 900. They had many of the manual mills in stock reconditioned for trade ins by those exchanging them for CNC models. I chose TAIG per Jim Byrnes reco. It has a longer bed and is already equipped with the stepper motor to turn at 10000 RPM needed for hardwoods. You have to by that add on with Sherline. I do use many of the Sherline accessories though.

Hi Chris (@CLB), where did you find your TAIG mill? Locally? Which model would you recommend?